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- School of Science
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School of Engineering
- Undergraduate major in Mechanical Engineering
- Undergraduate major in Systems and Control Engineering
- Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Undergraduate major in Information and Communications Engineering
- Undergraduate major in Industrial Engineering and Economics
- Common courses
- School of Materials and Chemical Technology
- School of Computing
- School of Life Science and Technology
- School of Environment and Society
- 工学院，物質理工学院，環境・社会理工学院共通科目
- Liberal arts and basic science courses
- First-Year Courses
- School of Science
- School of Engineering
- School of Materials and Chemical Technology
- School of Computing
- School of Life Science and Technology
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School of Environment and Society
- Department of Architecture and Building Engineering
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
- Department of Social and Human Sciences
- Department of Innovation Science
- Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
- Common courses
- Liberal arts and basic science courses
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Global Engineering for Development, Environment and Society
- Instructor(s)
- Kanda Manabu Yai Tetsuo Asawa Takashi Muromachi Yasunori
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Mon1-2(I4-B04/05) Thr1-2(I4-B04/05)
- Group
- -
- Course number
- GEG.E402
- Credits
- 2
- Academic year
- 2016
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2016/4/27
- Lecture notes updated
- -
- Language used
- English
- Access Index
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Course description and aims
There are many kinds of environmental problems in urban areas where most people live. These environmental problems are closely related to safety, amenity and convenience in our daily lives. This course explains urban environmental problems from various aspects, including city level, community level and building level. This course also provides ways to manage these problems for realizing sustainable cities.
Student learning outcomes
Students will be able to propose ways to solve various urban environmental problems for realizing sustainable cities.
Keywords
都市環境、建物、地域、地球、コミュニティー、安全性、利便性
Competencies that will be developed
| ✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
Professors give lectures in the classes. At the end of each class, students submit short summaries. These summaries are used for the evaluation.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Building and the surrounding environment | Understand the relationship between a building and the surrounding environment from viewpoint of physical phenomena. |
| Class 2 | Energy use in urban areas and its effect on the environment | Understand energy use in urban areas quantitatively and explain the process of anthropogenic heat release using related equations. |
| Class 3 | Thermal problems in the urban environment | Understand thermal problems (e.g. heat illness) in urban spaces and explain heat balance in urban spaces using related equations. |
| Class 4 | Urban greening and its effect on the environment | Understand the effects of urban greening on heat and water balances in urban areas. |
| Class 5 | Assessment of building environmental efficiency | Explain objective, framework and assessment method in Comprehensive Assessment System for Buildings Environmental Efficiency |
| Class 6 | Global warming mechanism | Understand the mechanism of global warming |
| Class 7 | Mechanism of Urban Heat Island | Understand the mechanism of Urban Heat Island |
| Class 8 | Extreme Weather in the context of Urban Heat Island | Understand the relationship between extreme weather and urban heat island |
| Class 9 | Urban Water Circulation | Understand urban water circulation: how different from natural water circulation |
| Class 10 | Outdoor Thermal Sensation | Understand the thermal sensation in outdoor environments by using energy balance theory of the human body |
| Class 11 | Sustainability in transport policy | Understand the fundamentals of sustainable national-urban-transportation planning |
| Class 12 | Climate change and transport | Understand measures for climate change in transport sector |
| Class 13 | Bicycle Transport Policy and planning in Japan | Understand the outlines of bicycle transport policy and planning system in Japan |
| Class 14 | Environmentally-friendly Transport System with LAMAT in developing countries | Understand the fundamentals of Locally Adapted Modified and Advanced Transport (LAMAT) system in developing countries |
| Class 15 | Redesign of Road Space and Planning Process for a better environment | Understand the ideas of redesigning of urban road space and the outline of participatory planning process for a better urban environment |
Textbook(s)
Nothing
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Nothing
Assessment criteria and methods
Report
Related courses
- ACE.B441 ： Advanced Technology for Environmental Load Reduction I
- ACE.B442 ： Advanced Technology for Environmental Load Reduction II
- ESD.D502 ： Sustainable Campus Design
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
Nothing
Other
nothing
